Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some may possibly think it strange that a Latin can be an authority on a poet so peculiarly. Anglo-Saxon as Shakespeare. These same people, however, take it for granted that men of northern descent are competent to treat the Romance literatures. Aside from the great Teutonic students of the classics, one can still find men like Lowell, Longfellow, or Grandgent, whose names are inseparably connected with so typical a national figure as Dante. And Dante's influence on his country has been as great or greater than that of Shakespeare on England. The fact is that the world...
Died. Paul J. Rainey, 45, big-game hunter, explorer, cinema photographer, on the S. S. Saxon, going from Southampton to Cape Town, of a stroke of paralysis. The first man to hunt lions with dogs, he once killed 27 lions in 35 days...
Professor Webster is a member of the English Department where his course in Anglo-Saxon will be given by Dr. F. P. Magoun, Jr., and his course on Milton by Mr. T. L. Hood '08. Professor Webster has been chairman of the Academic Board of Radcliffe College, that place now being taken by Professor G. H. Chase '96, Chairman of the Division of Fine Arts...
...short time ago a statue of Joan of Arc was dedicated at Winchester Cathedral, England, and now it stands side by side with Saxon kings and with such figures as those of Jane Austen and of Isaak Walton. The sainted savior of France has been placed in an English Church, with minor figures of English literature and history. But, although at first this act might seem incongruous, it is merely a single manifestation of what Carlyle has called "hero-worship". For the memory of the great belongs not to one nation solely, but to all humanity...
...severe oral quiz and a long thesis in addition to a high course record and certain specified studies, entitles the successful candidate to "Honors" or "Highest Honors". But the "magna cum" or "summa cum" is awarded without any oral examination, and with more lenient requirements in other respects: Anglo-Saxon, for example, is not necessary; and the thesis represents less exacting work. Consequently the degree "with Honors" in English corresponds to the degree "with Distinction" in most other departments; while the degree "with Distinction" in English means considerably less. Yet it is represented by the same words on the diploma...